井渫莫食

井渫莫食 in English

jǐng xiè mò shí: (idiom) To maintain one’s integrity without being known or appreciated by others. It is synonymous with 井渫不食.

Character breakdown

井 jǐng a well
渫 xiè to get rid of
莫 mò do not
食 shí to eat

Stroke order

Le caractère 井 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 井

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 莫 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 莫

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 食 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 食

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

井

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 15 forms

渫

Small seal script
Clerical script
See all 3 forms

莫

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 孫吳
See all 18 forms

食

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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